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Celebrity Wedding

Getting off the bus from school today,
the entire road in front of our house was clocked with people. We live
right across the road from one of the ritziest restaurants in town - Olive
- and there was apparently a big Bollywood wedding brunch. Only in India
would a brunch get started after 5pm! According to our guards (and
this website), the happy couple are Amrita
Arora and Shakeel Ladhak.

Now, whenever there are Bollywood
stars to be seen, you can count on a throng of passers-by and watchers.
One of the most amusing thing about people here is that they will come
out in droves just to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars. Two of the
biggest of the Bollywood actors - Salman
Khan and Kareena
Kapoor - are also supposed to be stopping by.

Of course, not all of the stars appreciate
this constant attention, and so whenever there is a gathering like this,
the police are out with these big sticks called lathis. They wave
them around, but are certainly not averse at all at using them on a crowd
- the technical term for this is a lathi charge.

Private security guards also hustled
around the area to chase off onlookers (although they pretty much left
the white guy with the camera alone).

As you can see from the background of this
picture, someone famous has just entered!

Watch out below!!

Even the back door entrance is no
guarantee of anonymity, as the photographers stake it out. Our house is
two buildings over to the right of the white car.But don't we all feel safer, knowing that
Mumbai's finest are on the job!